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Too early for lessons on delayed gratification and financial education for my 2-year old?

September 30, 2009

I’ve never really known how to teach a child about delayed gratification. I guess we have tried to teach Ryan about this in a subconscious manner where we ask of him to save or postpone something for later.
But I do not expect a child of 2 years to naturally save something for the future if [...]

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Short cut to teaching kids good manners

September 9, 2009

For a while now I’ve been pondering how parents teach their children good manners. How do you first break into the topic of good manners? How do you explain to a toddler what “good manners” means? How do you begin go teach them about the 3 magic words and maybe even what the term “magic [...]

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Bombarded with all kinds of kiddie lessons

September 3, 2009

Do you often find product mailers in your post boxes? We used to get plenty from housing developers and hypermarkets. So much so that most times they are unseen and simply dumped into the bins.
Lately there are a whole bunch of mailers for services in the area of children development and enrichment lessons. I would’ve thrown these [...]

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When do you start looking for schools for your toddler?

August 17, 2009

At the point when Ryan is going to turn 2, I have yet to look into finding a suitable pre-school for him. Of late, there have been a few more reasons and push factors for us to consider sending him to school soon.
My only contention about packing him off to a pre-school is the health [...]

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Very cheap children activity books

May 18, 2009

I went to the Big Bad Wolf Books warehouse sale three times. Too many times? I guess so…but each time I went, I just had to pick up more books. And the good thing is that they bring out more new books from the previous day’s sales so that they don’t run short of books [...]

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